Improvement in egg-carriers



UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT H. MITOHEL AND JOHN s. RARNETT, OE NEW OONOORD, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT |N Eee-cARRlER's.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 146,354; dated January 13,1874; application filed i August 15, 1873.

To all whom it may concern: A

Be it known that we, ROBERT H. MITOHEL and JOHN S. BARNETT, of New Concord, in

the county of Muskingum and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Egg-Carriers; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such las will enable Others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it reference being had to the accompanying drawings which form part of this speciication.

The nature of our invention consists in the construction and arrangement of an egg-carrier, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In Order to enable Others skilled in the art to which `our invent-ion appertains to make and use the same, we will now proceed to describe its construction and Operation, referring to the annexed drawing, which forms a part of this specication, and in which- Figure l is a perspective view of a part of our egg-carrier 5 Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same, and Fig. 3 shows the various strips of which it is composed.

Our egg-carrier is composed Ot' an'y desired number of tiers of pockets, each tier being i'ormed of a series of strips, A A, crossing another series ot strips, B B, at right angles, and with small' inclined strips C C at Or near `the lower edges ofthe strips B B, and extending their entire length. All these strips may be made of pasteboard, thick paper, rubber, Or any other suitable material. The `strips A A have slots a a cut at suitable intervals from the u'pper edge veically downward for about one-fourth of the width of t-he strip. Below the lower end Of each slot a, and a suitable distance from it, is cut a round hole, al, and from this hole are made two slots, a2 a2, one on each side, inclining downward at about an angle of forty-five degrees. The last hole at each end Of the strip A has only one of these slots a2, and this one extends inward, as shown. The

strips B B have each a series of slots b b, ex-

tending from the lower edge vertically upward for such a distance that, when the strips A and B are put together to form the pockets, their upper edges will be Hush, Or nearly flush, with each other.

from their lower edges.V These strips C C 4are inserted through the slots a? and holes al, and pressed down into said slots, their own slots d d passing down over the lower ends of the slots a2. This will leave just suiiicient room in the holes al that, when the strips B B are placed i easily constructed, and well adapted for rough u transportation. i

Having'thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the Slotted and perfo! rated strips A, slotted strips B, and slotted` strips C, when the same are constructed and arranged together, substantiallyin the manner and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our hands this 4th day of July, 1873.

, ROBT. H. MITOHEL. JOHN s. BARNETT.

Witnesses:

S. E. HYNDMAN, E. HALDEMAN, H. C. MODONALD, T. D. COOPER.`

The strips C Chave only a series of short slots d d extending vertically upward Here a narrow strip, l), will 

